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Author Glucksberg, Sam.

Title Understanding figurative language : from metaphors to idioms / Sam Glucksberg ; with a contribution by Matthew S. McGlone
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 134 pages)
Series Oxford psychology series ; no. 36
Oxford psychology series ; no. 36.
Contents Metaphor, the Central Trope -- Beyond the Literal -- Beyond Similarity -- Property Attribution -- Idioms: from Metaphor to "Just long words"? -- Concepts as Metaphors / Matthew S. McGlone
Summary Sam Glucksberg presents a new theory of metaphor, that metaphors are used in everyday discourse to create new concepts and categories. This process is spontaneous and automatic, and permeates both written and spoken language
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-127) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Figures of speech.
Metaphor.
Idioms.
French language -- Figures of speech.
Metaphor
metaphor.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
Metaphor
Idioms
Figures of speech
Beeldspraak.
Form Electronic book
Author McGlone, Matthew S., 1966-
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